Le Studio Montréal

Montreal offers a peaceful, safe and caring environment. The population is welcoming and does not hesitate to help newcomers settle in. The city, with its architecture at the crossroads of European and American influences, is pleasant and particularly dynamic. In Montreal, winter is the time to enjoy the snow and winter sports (open-air skating rinks in the parks, the first ski slopes just half an hour away) or the 32 kilometers of tunnels that make up the underground city (the RÉSO) with its shopping centers, restaurants, cinemas, etc.  

In the professional world, access to responsibilities is not a question of age or experience, and it is not uncommon to see people of 25 or 30 years old occupying management positions.

Designers of all backgrounds and specialties have the opportunity to fully develop their talents in Montreal. Its many festivals and international events (music, comedy, circus...) are great opportunities to showcase the talents of set designers.

The "city of a hundred steeples" is also home to many companies specialized in digital technology, such as Ubisoft Montreal, the largest video game development studio in the world, which offers great opportunities for game designers.

By integrating the companies in which they carry out their mandates as startups, the students also have the mission of helping people understand what design is and what it can contribute to new challenges.

They can confront their strategic vision of design with the logic of engineers, who are primarily focused on the technological solutions to be deployed to address a problem.

Photo: Stéphane Gouret, Deputy Director General of the school, Anne Brochard, President of the school and Jason Chapron, educational coordinator of the Studio Montréal for the project on the Transatlantic Crossing without Carbon / Photo credit: Charles Goddet

This Master's program puts the emphasis on field experience:

• Internships, alternating with classes, are carried out every other week throughout the program,
• At the end of the second year of the program, a 16-week to 6-month internship in a company is completed,
• The students are also offered the opportunity to join a free Centech coaching program: "Acceleration". For three months, this program allows entrepreneurs and students to specify and test the product or service to be marketed, to establish the best model according to the target, to set up a team and an organization, and to find their first clients,
• Many projects are organized in partnership with local companies, in order to work on concrete issues,

This Master's program offers a double degree at the intersection of design and entrepreneurship in partnership with ETS. 

This program combines strategic design, innovation, and entrepreneurship and leads to:

• a Master's level degree program in Design from L'École de design Nantes Atlantique, recognized by the French government
• a 'DESS' a specialized graduate degree from ÉTS

This program is designed for students who wish to develop strategic expertise in design and engage with real-world professional contexts internationally.